Diocese of Issele-Uku
Isseleukuan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Issele-Uku, Nigeria
The Diocese of Issele-Uku is a Latin Church diocese in Delta State, Nigeria, erected on 5 July 1973 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Benin City. It covers the northern part of Delta State west of the River Niger, including the state capital Asaba.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 July 1973
- Latin
- Isseleukuan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady Mother of Perpetual Help
- Annuario code
- 001001685
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 364,000
- Priests
- 196
- Catholics per priest
- 1,857
- Extent
- 3,011 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 121
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Michael Odogwu Elue
- Born
- 4 April 1956
- Birthplace
- Ute-Ogbeje
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Saint Paul Cathedral stands in Issele-Uku, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Benin City
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Benin City.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Benin CityBenin City
- Diocese of AuchiAuchi
- Diocese of BomadiBomadi
- Diocese of UromiUromi
- Diocese of WarriWarri
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
On the west bank of the Niger River, between Benin City to the west and Onitsha to the east, sits the city of Issele-Uku in Delta State, seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Issele-Uku (Latin: Isseleukuan(us)). The diocese belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, and takes in six local government areas in the northern portion of Delta State. Its neighbors are the Archdiocese of Onitsha to the east, the Archdiocese of Benin City to the west, the Diocese of Uromi to the north, and the Diocese of Warri to the south.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].